Example sentences of "[prep] the english " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was good enough to contain Al Capone , he could then assure the Prime Minister , should be right for the English yob . |
| 2 | So , for the English edition , he has added five new chapters , consisting mostly of advice to America to balance his previous advice to Japan . |
| 3 | Formal negotiations for the English match might have been dead by the end of 1543 ; discussions about the queen 's marriage were not . |
| 4 | By accident as much as design the Ashleys created a remarkable international brand , tapping a worldwide nostalgia for the English country cottage look . |
| 5 | Tipperary Girl tells sympathetically , but ultimately with disapproval , of a pregnant Irish teenager opting for the English solution . |
| 6 | Europe should not hold any fears for the English cup-holders after only four defeats , including two on penalty strokes , in 22 matches on the Continent in recent years . |
| 7 | The British Council acts as a cultural ambassador for Britain and for the English language . |
| 8 | It remains to be seen whether at this eleventh hour for the English countryside , those other giants , the forestry and the agriculture industries , are also prepared to take seriously a wider frame of reference . |
| 9 | The immediate cause of this switch was a ban on the export of walnut from the Savoie region of France — the principal source of the wood for the English industry — by the French government in 1720 . |
| 10 | This is convenient for the English Tourist Board and the Maze Society , who have dubbed 1991 the Year of the Maze . |
| 11 | ‘ I swear , ’ Corbett said emphatically , ‘ that my intention is not to spy for the English King . |
| 12 | The Swedes , however , took shelter within their fortifications ; the invasion , if ever planned , had , it appeared , been called off and in August 1717 the arrested Swedish ambassador was exchanged for the English resident in Sweden , who had been detained in a tit-for-tat reprisal . |
| 13 | In 1848 , when the new chaplain for the English Church arrived , Lowe set up a rival church ( the Beco Chapel ) with his own supporters , who numbered about one third of the English Church members , and took with him communion plate and silver from the English Church . |
| 14 | Catholics and Protestants united to raise over 4000 troops for the English defence , although in the event they were not needed . |
| 15 | It had been suggested that the Russians ' use of an ineligible player , Mikhail Rusayev , during the first and second rounds could open the door for the English club 's return , in the manner of Leeds ' dramatic European Cup reprieve . |
| 16 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 17 | You may feel that you were good at English or school or have a flair for the English language . |
| 18 | It was the custom before an international match at Murrayfield for the band to play tunes appropriate to the nationality of the visiting team ; for the French The Marseillaise , for the English ‘ God Save the Queen ’ , for the Welsh ‘ Land of My Fathers ’ , for the Irish ‘ The Soldier 's Song ’ . |
| 19 | The year 1983 was seminal for the English universities , under financial pressure from the Thatcher government to economise , and also for Martin Fleischmann . |
| 20 | The Jurassic palynology of north west Scotland , principally Skye , has been investigated to provide a reference section for offshore exploration in the Western Margin ( the Rockall Trough to the Faeroe-Shetland Channel ) , to provide biostratigraphical data for the Land Survey , and to test the existing palynomorph zonal schemes for the English Jurassic . |
| 21 | He insists on this : ( A433 ) ‘ For the ENGLISH are the seed of Abraham ’ ; ( B225 ) ‘ St. Paul is the Agent for England ’ . |
| 22 | The Scottish FA decided against using a FIFA rule to order the release of the pair yesterday but Roxburgh had a warning for the English Premier League . |
| 23 | Their attitude was part of an exaggerated respect for the English class system , and they did not seem to realize that an open-minded person like Horsley could easily have had the same sort of meeting at , for example , a CND conference . |
| 24 | Henry remained a doctrinal conservative until his death , and as a consequence , although the legislation enacted by the Reformation Parliament brought about a jurisdictional revolution , it created no new theology for the English church . |
| 25 | Two of these scholars , Edward Foxe and Thomas Cranmer , who were both members of Anne Boleyn 's faction at court , were responsible for drawing up a document called the Collectanea satis copiosa , in which they advanced a claim of imperial sovereignty for the English monarchy . |
| 26 | Influential Inspectors like Christian Schiller of the Department of Education and Science ; headteachers like Tom Johns in Oxfordshire ; classroom teachers like Sybil Marshall ; lecturers in colleges of education , like Len Marsh ; directors of education like Alec Clegg in the West Riding of Yorkshire ; and creative thinkers like Robin Tanner , Edith Moorhouse and John Coe ; used the opportunity which the massive restructuring of state education gave and were instrumental in building up , for the first time , a coherent philosophy for the English primary school . |
| 27 | The previous occupant had been a Swiss merchant who had been evicted to make way for the English milord and his lady , and Jane had a suspicion that the Swiss , like all foreigners , harboured strange and filthy diseases . |
| 28 | It was only when this war was settled , and England embarked on a period of forty years of almost unbroken peace , that settlement began in North America and in the West Indies , and that trade with India became regular and organized enough for the English to set up trading posts there . |
| 29 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 30 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |